The Hidden Force That Was Eating a Dam Alive #glencanyondam #cavitation

Something tore through the spillway tunnels of Glen Canyon Dam in 1983, and at first it looked like an explosion had gone off. There was no bomb and no earthquake — the real cause was hidden inside the rushing water itself. As floodwater roared through the tunnels, an invisible process began eating away at the concrete from the inside out. By the time engineers looked inside, they found a crater large enough to swallow a four-story building. With another flood season closing in, the fix they chose wasn't more concrete — it was something far simpler, and it's still protecting dams around the world today.

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